Carolina Bed & Breakfast

Month: December 2011

Just adjacent to the Grove Park Inn is the Grovewood Gallery, home of the Homespun Shops of Biltmore Industry This collection of shops and galleries was built by George Vanderbuilt and his wife, Edith, in order to provide the youth of Asheville with the opportunity to learn wool making and other mountain crafts and industries. … Read more »

This year, once again the Grove Park Inn hosted the 19th Annual Gingerbread Competition. The temptation is to call it a “gingerbread house” competition but this would be misleading. While many of the entries do consist of houses, an equal number do not. In fact, this years winner was a cowboy boot (granted it was… Read more »

This past Thanksgiving James and I were lucky enough to have our family with us here and we took advantage of their presence to try some of the more unique attractions in our town. One of these was the La Zoom Comedy Tour. This purple bus roams our streets Spring through Christmas and guests at… Read more »

Why the Kitchen Garden?

When I am cooking at the Carolina Bed & Breakfast I will often step outside to our Kitchen Garden. The herbs and plants which grow there are an important part of our cuisine. They bring flavor and color to the food, changing seasonally while also creating a pleasant spot in which to wander in our garden. In appreciation of this, I have named my blog “The Kitchen Garden”. In it you will find many different topics, ranging from restaurant reviews and things to do in Asheville, to history and stories about the house and our area and more. Like the plants in my garden, the intention of this blog is to add to your enjoyment of Asheville, our food and our surroundings.